Editorial
Addressing the climate emergency is coming to be recognised as a top policy priority by more and more policy-makers. In order to rein human activity back within planetary limits our entire production and consumption model needs a fundamental, paradigmatic change. The welfare state that emerged in the context of a fossil fuel-based extractive economic model, based on a belief in sustained growth, cannot remain unaffected by the ongoing transition to a net-zero economy (Gough et al., 2008). Nevertheless, the different possible linkages between the welfare state and climate and environmental issues largely remain unexplored. This is what motivated this special issue. Read more...
Béla Galgóczi, Philippe Pochet
The full issue can be found → here
Co-editors: Philippe Pochet, Vera Šćepanović, Maarten Keune
Managing Editor: Marina Luttrell
Contents
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Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts - Béla Galgóczi, Philippe Pochet
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Europe’s green, digital and demographic transition: a social policy research perspective - Maria Petmesidou, Ana M. Guillén
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Understanding eco-social policies: a proposed definition and typology - Matteo Mandelli
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From a ‘just transition for us’ to a ‘just transition for all’ - Béla Galgóczi
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Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathway - Dunja Krause, Dimitris Stevis, Katja Hujo, Edouard Morena
News and Background
- A labour–nature alliance for a social-ecological transformation - Peter Nitsche-Whitfield
Book Reviews
- Book Review: Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy - Holm-Detlev Köhler
- Book Review: Media Capitalism. Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception - György Széll